According to an article on Destructoid, a number of game developers agree that the PlayStation 3 has better system performance than the Xbox 360. Square Enix’s Julian Merceron even says that the PS3 is more powerful technically and that developers need only push their games to get the most out of the system.

 “Personally, I’d say that – on PS3 – I believe there are some major improvements that can still be done, taking advantage of parallelisation and using more of the CPU for graphics tasks. At the end of current home Console life cycle, it is very possible consumers might get the feeling PS3 is slightly ahead of Xbox 360 in terms of graphics, but it will only happen if developers dedicate time to really push things on PS3!” 

At this point in time, this generation’s console war has the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 tied neck and neck on their processing power and other technical specifications. In some cases, the PlayStation 3 outdoes the 360, and in other cases, the 360 outdoes the PS3.

And while many of the developers agree to this, some have also said that the extra year that the PlayStation 3 took for development has paid off as many of the later games are starting to look much better on the PS3 as compared to the 360. Case in point: Final Fantasy XIII; the PS3 version looked better graphically and performed well as compared to the Xbox 360 version.

Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi mentioned that because the PS3 took that extra year for development, and arriving later than its rival, it wins out in performance, albeit just slightly.

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[Via Destructoid]